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IMPROVEMENT IN CHEESE-PRESS.

WM. THOMAS AND WM. RHOADES, or MUKWONAGO, WISCONSIN. Letters .Patent No. 60,438, dated Decemder 11, 1866.

Be it known that we, WILLXAM THOMAS and WILLIAM RHOADES, of the town of Mukwonago, lirrftlgxe county l of Waukeshaw, and. State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and improved Cheese Press; andilw-evdo hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the saine, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification.

The nature and object of this invention is to produce a press in which the weight of the cheese will do its own pressing, and that can be so adjusted as to admit the cheese to exert a greater or less weight upon itself.

The drawing represents a front elevation of our press.

A A is the frame, with portions of each postof` the frame cut away to show other parts of the press more clearly. B is a cross-beam, working in the slots C C, which is readily raisedor lowered by the rope D. This rope passes over the pulley at E through .the'post A at F; and around the Windlass II, I and K are twomovable levers passing through the posts A A, and so placed that they cross each other. They freely move in the slots C C and N N. M is a bed-piece, each end of which passes through the slots C C, and rest upon the levers I and K. TTare pawls,irmly attached tothe bed-piece fitting into the notches S S S in each ofthe leversI and K. The levers I and K are united by means of the adjustable arms V V to the cross-piece B. i

The operation of my machine is as follows:

The cheese is placed on the centre of the bed-piecel M. The windlass H is-unfastened when the weight of the cheese bearsl down the bed M, the cross-piece B, and the ends of the levers I and K. Thol cross-piece B travels faster than the bed-piece M, it being connected with the levers I and K by means of the arms V V. greater or less pressure is brought to bear upon tle cheese by inserting the pawls T T in notches S S at'distances greater from the upper ends of the levers I and K, thus increasing the leverage between the particular notches in which the pawls are placed, and the lower ends of the arms V V. By this means we are able to make the cheese exert a. pressure upon itself greater than its weight. The cheese is relieved from pressure by winding up the cord D on the wndlass H.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- The combination of the notched levers I and K, with the pawls T T, arms V V, and bed-piece M and crossbeam B.

WILLIAM THOMAS, WILLIAM BHQADES.

Witnesses:

JAMES A. Oowtns, WM. H. SANGSTER. 

